MORALIZER Synonyms: 56 Similar and Opposite Words

moralizer

noun

Definition of moralizer

as in preacher

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Recent Examples of moralizer Fowler certainly was a moralizer, just maybe not in the way Jespersen meant. — Ben Yagoda, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025

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Noun

Anton offers him protection, money and a possible escape from Stonemore, while an enigmatic local preacher (played by Kirby), presents him with a very different path.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Soon, the vast stadium was packed — not with rugby fans or concertgoers, but with thousands who came to pray with an African preacher.

— Nimi Princewill, CNN Money, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of preacher

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Twenty years ago, moralists tried to strong arm a Texas private school into removing Annie Proulx’s sensitive story Brokeback Mountain from its curriculum.

— SPIN Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026
Carney is a moralist, a filmmaker of fidelity—and of renunciation, depicting the romantic near-misses and what-ifs that his characters leave behind.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 29 May 2026

Definition of moralist

Noun

Working to fight back the tears The calls, text and social media messages have come nonstop since about an hour after the accident, said Chapman University lecturer Peter Weitzner, who served as an advisor and teacher to Moreno in several classes.

— Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 19 Sep. 2026
Elizabeth Shackelford is a foreign affairs columnist for the Chicago Tribune and a distinguished lecturer with the Dickey Center at Dartmouth College.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 18 Sep. 2026

Definition of lecturer

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So this green dress with small spots and an oversized puritan collar was quite appropriate for its time.

— Katherine J Igoe, InStyle, 1 July 2026
However, rather than blithely dismiss the consequences of legalization with eye-rolling contempt for the puritans, supporters should confront the adverse societal effects of cannabis — the pervasive urban stench, the traffic deaths and the pernicious effects on youth.

— Cory Franklin, Chicago Tribune, 12 Jan. 2026

Definition of puritan

Noun

While women cannot be ordained as priests or deacons, they are not forbidden from teaching the faith as theologians, catechists and scholars.

— Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 2 May 2026
Lacchin was quietly transferred to a nearby mission; his driver and a catechist at Archer’s Post, Benjamin Ekwam, was chosen to marry Sabina.

— Washington Post, Washington Post, 9 Oct. 2019

Definition of catechist

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